Israeli settler to go on trial over attack on French nun in Jerusalem
Yona Simcha Schreiber from settlement in West Bank faces charge of assault motivated by hostility towards religious group
TL;DR
- An Israeli settler, Yona Simcha Schreiber, will be tried for assaulting a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem.
- The attack occurred on Mount Zion and involved the suspect pushing and kicking the nun.
- Surveillance footage captured the violent incident.
- Schreiber, from a West Bank settlement, faces a charge of assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group.
- The French consulate and Israeli foreign ministry condemned the attack.
- The Faculty of Humanities at Hebrew University noted a "troubling pattern" of hostility towards the Christian community.